Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Iowa Football Rewatch of Purdue: Was passing game that brutal? PFF Grades & Wisconsin up next

Episode Date: October 9, 2023

Trent Condon is back for another week of the Locked on Hawkeyes Podcast with a rewatch of the match up with Purdue.Some thoughts on the scheme that Iowa employed with Deacon Hill taking his first care...er start at quarterback for the Hawkeyes and how the running game came together.Erick All was the star along with Kaleb Johnson. Thoughts on what the defensive front did to disrupt and put together the best game for the front 4 all season.Some surprising numbers from Pro Football Focus this week including the grade for Deacon Hill.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!eBay MotorsWith all the parts you need at the prices you want, it’s easy to turn your car into the MVP and bring home that win. Keep your ride-or-die alive at EbayMotors.com. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers.Athletic BrewingGo to AthleticBrewing.com and enter code LOCKEDON to get 15% off your first online order or find a store near you! Athletic Brewing. Milford, CT and San Diego, CA. Near Beer.PrizePicksGo to PrizePicks.com/lockedoncollege and use code lockedoncollege for a first deposit match up to $100! Daily Fantasy Sports Made Easy! GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase.Jase MedicalSave more than $360 by getting these lifesaving antibiotics with Jase Medical plus an additional $20 off by using code LOCKEDON at checkout on jasemedical.com.LinkedInLinkedIn Jobs helps you find the qualified candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONCOLLEGE. Terms and conditions apply.FanDuelMake Every Moment More. Right now, NEW customers can bet FIVE DOLLARS and get TWO HUNDRED in BONUS BETS – GUARANTEED. Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I rewatched it, so you don't have to. A look back at Iowa's win against Purdue. The offense up and down. Were there some positives, though, to take away? We will talk about that. The numbers are in from Pro Football Focus. How did Iowa grade out on the football field offensively and defensively? And it's a showdown for the crappy Big Ten West.
Starting point is 00:00:23 Can Iowa beat Wisconsin today? Locked on Hawkeyes. You are locked on Hawkeyes, your daily podcast on the Iowa Hawkeyes. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Ben, I'm Trent Condon, and this is the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. Thanks for making Locked On Hawkeyes your first listen every single day. We're available wherever you get podcasts.
Starting point is 00:01:01 You can also find us on YouTube. While you're there, make sure you hit that subscribe button. Helps us get in front of more Hawkeye fans. Well, we watched it again. And, you know, when I rewatch these football games each and every week, you're looking for things that you missed the first time around. Obviously, that is a part of it. But also with the sense of the way the game's going to play out,
Starting point is 00:01:22 you can concentrate in different levels, in different areas. different areas so first a run through of what we saw and some thoughts that if you listen to the instant reaction podcast on saturday evening you you got a few of these things but a couple of things that popped out just kind of running through all right opening drive let's see a loss of one on the first play of the game. They go empty. And the next two plays. So it's second and nine and then third and nine after an incompletion. Take a shot in double coverage down the field on that second down play. Third and nine. All, both of those plays came in the empty formation.
Starting point is 00:01:56 And I don't want to say that you completely rid yourself of a formation that is part of your offense. But it almost feels like it's time to get rid of that crappy formation. It just, it doesn't work. This goes into my line of thinking again, what is Iowa's philosophy? What are they trying to do? You want to be 50-50 run base. I get that. What kind of mismatches are you creating with Iowa when you go five wide? Would you take any ability for a tight end to be chipping? You take away any ability for a running back to be able to pick up a blitzer? I just, for what Iowa is and their deficiencies that they have,
Starting point is 00:02:39 I don't think it makes much sense when Iowa has at least even an a blow average offense, not a terrible offense. And I just scrap it anyway. So great punt by Tori Taylor. It takes a crazy hop and they get a big punt return. Here comes Purdue back the other way. Joe Evans. This was a forebearing of things to come. A tackle for loss on first down makes a third eight. Nick Jackson gets off the block. He was really, I think the improvement we've seen from Nick Jackson, a lot needs to be said about that. Playing a new position, what he has been able to do, really been impressed by his play. Card escaped on that wild play out to the right and
Starting point is 00:03:17 tossed it away. Should have been in completion. Instead, turns into a run. So Iowa's next possession after getting a break there, as Hudson Card was not down as he threw the ball out of bounds, but they had to punt it away because they said he was down. So Iowa gets the ball back. Anyway, first play, rollout pass.
Starting point is 00:03:37 Caleb looked good. That was one of the most successful offensive plays that we saw in the passing game. Had the touchdown to Eric Hall. We'll get to that. Another play up the seam. But it was a good-looking play.
Starting point is 00:03:51 And the throw was on time and on the money. One of the rare times we could say that in this game. The next play then, Caleb Johnson sprints in the end zone. 67 yards. I was up 7-0 on that one. Next time down, Y.A. Black. I think he continues to show out. Mentioned a week ago against Michigan State.
Starting point is 00:04:07 I thought he played his best game in a Hawkeye uniform, and that continued. He's playing at a high level. Love to see that a guy that you could just tell with a coaching staff from Kelvin Bell, the defensive line coach, Phil Parker. They've been waiting for this because you see the ability. You see the guy that moves at that kind of size,
Starting point is 00:04:24 has his strength, his versatility. They've've been excited about him health has always been the concern and it feels like it's clicking right now Jamari Harris had a big hit also on that drive uh the interception though when Iowa gets the football back it was a drop pass it was also a little bit of a high throw was that the will say, yeah, I should have caught that. He also had to jump up to try to make the play. And here's another thing. And as we talk about Deacon Hill, in the 6-21 performance, it was brutal.
Starting point is 00:04:53 No two ways about it. It was awful. And re-watching it, I will tell you, it still looked awful again. One thing to remember, and I think a play like that definitely shows out, we saw what kind of havoc the wind played in the kicking game. The same could be said in the passing game. I think that's something that at least needs to be mentioned. It was really windy down there on
Starting point is 00:05:15 the field. And though it wasn't some games where you see 25, 35 mile an hour winds, it wasn't like that. There were just something about the way that it swirled down on the ground down at field level it was just it was odd it was something you rarely see a kinnick in a day that isn't super windy in comparison to some that we see it there was a breeze there was a wind no doubt about it but there were just something about the way that it was coming in i think that wrecked have there including maybe on that play uh but Iowa gets it right back, and Cooper DeShene runs it back. Now, if we would have saw running up, and how about the hustle out of Jay Higgins? He's getting up
Starting point is 00:05:52 there and trying to block guys. I think he blocked the wrong guy, and Cooper would have got in. But hey, it sets your offense up on the doorstep, right? Chance to put this thing, not in the bang in the first half, but boy, create a big difference the way that defense came to play.
Starting point is 00:06:09 Instead, it's the Iowa offense. First, a goal from the five. I could argue that Cooper was actually a three. And we're nitpicky here because we're talking about an awful Iowa offense,
Starting point is 00:06:23 but okay. Now we're at the five. There we go. First play. Plow forward into the line, get a couple yards. Fine. Second down. From the three. Again, something that I've been trying to figure out for years. What is Iowa's
Starting point is 00:06:39 offensive identity? What are you trying to do? Well, bullies of the Big Ten, physical football, yada, yada, yada. And you line up with shotgun. Okay. It drives me nuts more on third and fourth and one teams that do that and play out of shotgun. Iowa doesn't do that, thank God.
Starting point is 00:06:59 That's one less thing, I guess, for me to complain about. But shotgun snaps high. Deacon can't corral it. It's a 15-yard loss. And then the third down play where they run the draw play. That was a well-conceived play. Look, you're not going to make a touchdown there. You're just not.
Starting point is 00:07:17 With what we were seeing at that point from Deacon Hill, that was the right play. That was the correct thing to do. And I knew the Boo Birds were out. They weren't as plentiful after that play as they were in some other moments of the game. I was fine with that. Take the field goal, get your three,
Starting point is 00:07:32 and they did just that to take a 10-0 lead, you thought. They did on that one. Okay, sorry about that. All right, let's see. Oh, the pass interference. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pass interference. This is a little bit earlier from Cooper Jean. Sorry, but I know it's a little bit out of order. This was, uh, before the field goal, no good from Purdue Cooper Jean. That was a bad call. He was called for pass interference. That was not pass interference. All right.
Starting point is 00:07:58 Going through that. Uh, let's see more miss passes run for four at Caleb Johnson open on another drive. That didn't work out. Mentioned a high snap after the Cooper INT, and away we go. Another three and out the next time Iowa gets the ball. First down, missed a wide open receiver. The play design, and that was something, again, watching it again and going back to what Iowa's scheme and what they're trying to do is the route concepts from this football team are absolutely baffling. I mean, how many times do you have guys that are running in the same area?
Starting point is 00:08:30 And this was one of them there. You're trying to get the ball out to the running back coming out of the backfield. And then right behind him, like four yards is a tight end also coming out that way. You're bringing defenders over with it. It's just, it is so ill-conceived. It is just, it feels like they don't know what they're doing. And that's silly. They know what they're doing.
Starting point is 00:08:48 These are college football coaches. These are guys that absolutely have the background to be able to, you would think, scheme something better than what they're doing. Yep. Here we are. So that's what we have here. Some of the notes from the first half. Let's see.
Starting point is 00:09:05 Oh, here's that led to the blocked field goal. Caleb, huge run to midfield. LaShawn went for 13 to run it again. LaShawn again for four. Rall left. That was a poor play design that I was talking about. Another one of those hideous ones. And then rolling to the left in general.
Starting point is 00:09:20 I mean, it's so difficult, even for very talented quarterbacks, to be able to do that. Now, the thing about Deacon Hill and because of the strong arm that he has, he's probably a little bit better equipped, but that is something that you have to drill so much as a quarterback is when you're rolling to the left, getting your hips turn, getting those shoulders turn, making that throw completely. Somebody throws normally sail when you're doing that. Pressure's coming on you. You got to get your body reset, reorganized.
Starting point is 00:09:49 A lot of times there's going to be pressure coming into your face then as you reset and as you're facing and trying to make that throw. It's difficult. It's really difficult to do there. And on top of it, it looked like the route tree was broken. But that's been the case for seven years. I'll let the block field goal after a completion to all for three. Then we go down towards the end of the half. Oh, how about that?
Starting point is 00:10:12 So the broken play, it happens. Xavier Wampa missed a tackle. Could have been help on the backside. It was a goofy play. Things like that happen. It's a broken play. I'm not going to freak out about the defense giving up the score on that one. But the kickoff out of bounds.
Starting point is 00:10:29 So this Purdue kicker kicks it out of bounds and what? Oh, no, it's all good. The wind blew it off the tee. No, it didn't. The guy's lying. I guess we are loud liars in the Big Ten these days. Halftime. We come back with the second half.
Starting point is 00:10:46 Grades from Pro Football Focus, including a grade that I was absolutely bewildered by. Deacon Hill goes 6 of 21. His grade from Pro Football Focus, it will surprise you. We'll do that as we continue. This is the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. We'll do that as we continue. This is the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. Today's episode of Locked On Hawkeyes is brought to you by Athletic Brewing.
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Starting point is 00:12:58 a rewatch of the 22-14 win over Purdue. We move on to the second half after Purdue tries to cheat at the end of the first half. We'll get away with cheating, I guess, at the end of the first half. And what else do we have here? Not a ton more outside of the things that we talked about. The run game got going. I thought this was a time where getting the ball up the seam to Eric Hall,
Starting point is 00:13:22 that was a great play. The run game gets going. They're looking better. The second half was a whole lot better for Deacon Hill. It really was. So they get down there. They make the couple of throws to all. Of course, he had five of the six catches in the football game.
Starting point is 00:13:39 We already talked about the other one to the running back. So anyway, they get down there, and they get down to the eight-yard line, and then they try to do the throwback play to the tackle. Mason Richmond was incredibly debilitated throughout this game. Him and Connor Colby, if I had been able to develop any kind of depth in that offensive line over the last couple of years, those guys wouldn't have been out there. But alas, here we are.
Starting point is 00:14:07 So you have two guys that can't move, including one guy that as of Friday, Mason Richmond, Kirk Ferentz didn't think was going to play in the football game. And what do you do? You set up a throwback play to your tight end in a game where your wide receiver still was without a catch and finished without a catch now maybe it was just something hokey and maybe very well could be i don't know maybe they're just trolling us at this point i don't know because
Starting point is 00:14:34 the play call it was set up but if mason rich richmond catches that football if he catches the football there what is the likelihood that he turns it upfield, gets into the end zone, doesn't fumble, doesn't get touched, and is able to get there because of his physical ailments? So many times, Brian Ferencz just gets too cute. Things are working. At this point, he was going up and just getting the ball to all. The run game was going at this point. This was not like
Starting point is 00:15:07 we talked about the first couple weeks when they couldn't even get the run game going. And just trying to outsmart yourself. Trying to be too cute. Don't be too cute. You don't have to show us how smart you are because frankly we don't think you're very smart as an offensive coordinator. Knock it off with that crap.
Starting point is 00:15:24 If you're going to do a trick play, do a real trick play. Not this garbage. It didn't work. It was knocked down. And probably, thank goodness, because Mason Richmond maybe would have had his leg gripped off. Good God. Just absolutely baffling. So we got that.
Starting point is 00:15:36 I mentioned this also on the Instant Reaction podcast. I don't know why it bothers me so much. Well, I know why it bothers me so much. It bothers me so much because Iowa could have lost the football game because of Kirk Ferentz and his inability to do very simple football math. 14 minutes to go. Iowa scores the touchdown. They go up 19-7.
Starting point is 00:15:56 They kick the extra point. Two touchdowns beats you. Two touchdowns with short extra points. We're not talking about the NFL where the extra points are moved back. We're talking about a 20-yard extra point. Two touchdowns with short extra points. We're not talking about the NFL where the extra points are moved back. We're talking about a 20-yard extra point. Two touchdowns beats you. And Purdue got the football back with a chance to beat Iowa all for what? I don't know what the justification could possibly be.
Starting point is 00:16:21 We thought we were going to score again. Knock it off with that crap. That's not what you're playing here. You're playing to win the game, right? You're playing to win. And for not going for two there, that is just short-sighted. That's not having your head in the game. Kirk, you're whistling at officials and you're going crazy. And poor Drew Stevens, as he had that second field goal that was missed and it wasn't even close. Well, when your coach is hooting and hollering on the sidelines and freaking out about a five-yard delay penalty, have your field goal unit out there. Let's go.
Starting point is 00:16:52 Get your head screwed on straight. And then to not go for two, that's bad coaching. That is bad coaching. And that could have cost Iowa the football game for not being in the game. Was it a senior moment? Let's hope not. That was bad. The difference between 12 and 13 point lead
Starting point is 00:17:09 in the fourth quarter of a football game in a low scoring game is so negligible. It's fractions of a percent. What could you possibly be thinking there? Maybe nothing. I don't know. I don't know if there's justification. I didn't see anything in the transcript
Starting point is 00:17:26 or what I heard after the football game about that. I think that's coaching malpractice. That could have lost Iowa the football game for no reason. For no reason at all. There is nothing justifiable for that. And it drives me nuts. It absolutely drives me crazy. That's a rewatch.
Starting point is 00:17:44 Let's get into the numbers. Pro Football Focus, those numbers coming your way offensive and defensively. Woo! It is. There are some questionable ones in there. Let's get into it, and let's start with the defense. So the defense, no surprise. We see some good numbers from the defense.
Starting point is 00:18:00 Deontay Craig, rated as the best defensive lineman of 75 and a half. Great to see him step up. Had the sack early this season. He was back out there playing at a high level. We mentioned Y.A. Black. He continues to ascend. Joe Evans. In fact, I thought Joe Evans was going to be maybe even a little bit higher.
Starting point is 00:18:17 Four tackles for loss in the game. He grades out at a 73.1. Right behind him is Aaron Graves. Maybe his best game in a Hawkeye uniform. Had the sack. Hudson Carter kind of ran back into him on that play. Nearly had another. He was huffing and puffing and chasing him down a couple of times.
Starting point is 00:18:33 Aaron Graves, another guy. We're hoping that development continues. And with the potential return of Noah Shannon, not having to play as many snaps, that's a pretty good thing there. Logan Lee is 65.9. I mean, he had a monster game, 10 tackles, a couple of sacks and a 65.9. That one was a little bit surprising. Then Llewellyn and Herc had a 63 and a 62, respectively, for both those guys. Where's Brian Allen? This defense is out on the field a ton. And on a day where they play
Starting point is 00:19:01 their best performance and certainly the best performance of the defensive line this season, it's kind of silly to say where is the next guy in line and what are we talking about here? The eighth guy down in the order, but Brian Allen showed up so well back in spring football. Same thing in the August camp. He was the star, certainly defensively, of that one-day camp, and we just haven't seen a ton of him.
Starting point is 00:19:24 We've seen him late in a couple of football games. I'm surprised. I think he can help out. And if I was going to continually still be playing 75, 80, 90 snaps a game, yeah, you're going to be wanting to work on that depth a little bit more. Not having those guys out there play that many snaps, we know how debilitating that can be. At linebacker, no surprise, it was Jay Higgins again,
Starting point is 00:19:45 the top-rated linebacker. Nick Jackson, a 55.8. I was a little bit surprised by that. I thought that would be a tick higher than what it was. I think he continues to ascend. And then Kyler Fisher with a 48.3. Defensive backfield, Sebastian Castro grades out as the top defensive back at a 70.4.
Starting point is 00:20:04 Castro was fine. I didn't think he was great. I was a little bit surprised by that number. Xavier Wampa was next with a 70.3. I do not agree with that number. Cooper Dijon with the 70. I don't agree with that number. Cooper Dijon, I thought, was the best defensive back.
Starting point is 00:20:18 And he mentioned the pass interference call. Maybe it's just because I believe it shouldn't have been pass interference. That his grade probably would have been better without that. He was taking on a really talented freshman, and that young kid, he's got a future and a start, and hopefully by the time that Iowa sees him again in 2026, he's not around because that dude is a really good football player, and he's going to make some guys hit.
Starting point is 00:20:40 Quinn Schulte then a big step back as a 61.6 for him. Jamari Harris a 61.1. There was one play where Kirk was screaming at him and Phil Parker and another defensive coach was over on the sideline just screaming at Harris for not getting back and getting up I guess quicker. It was just a little quick out route or stop route out on the outside and they were not pleased with him but I thought Harris played a little bit better than that so at least me and pro football focus defensively don't look at things the same way certainly don't look the same way offensively including the quarterback position stay right there deacon hill what he graded from pro football focus this is one of the most
Starting point is 00:21:22 baffling things that i have seen from these numbers. We'll do that as we continue. Plus, do the Hawkeyes have any chance of beating Wisconsin? We do that as we roll through on Locked On Hawkeyes. Today's episode is brought to you by eBay Motors. Passion, drive, and patience. What brings home the winning trophy
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Starting point is 00:22:33 Exclusions apply. eBay guaranteed fit only available to U.S. customers. Trent Conant back with you one final time on the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. All right, we've been teasing this one let's hit it Deacon Hill his numbers from pro football focus Deacon Hill young man that went 6-21 throwing the football
Starting point is 00:22:54 threw for 110 yards one touchdown winner exception yeah that Deacon Hill not talking about a different dude here not talking about some guy that's playing in the Sun Belt or some guy that's playing in the Sun Belt or some guy that's playing in the Pioneer League no our Deacon Hill
Starting point is 00:23:08 with that performance he grades out above average in fact on this scale from Pro Football Focus he grades out as well and in fact better empirically than Caleb Williams now I watch most of the USC-Arizona game on Saturday night,
Starting point is 00:23:27 and if you thought that Deacon Hill outplayed Caleb Williams, I don't know what you're seeing. Their numbers see it differently. 67.8 grade for Deacon Hill. One thing they do love in their grading scale is big time throws. And he had three of what they consider three big time throws. So that's a part of it. He only had one turnover worthy play. That's a part of it too still kept clean three of eight for 38 yards and a touchdown when under pressure deacon hill three of 13 for 73 yards when he wasn't blitz two of seven for 31
Starting point is 00:24:15 yards i mean all these numbers are awful what he is blitz 414 for 79 yards and the touchdown to all and off play action three of six 62 yards and one touchdown off play action. Three of six, 62 yards and one touchdown. No play action there. Three of 15. That goes back to what I was talking about earlier with the five wide receiver. Of course, there's no play action when nobody's around. You don't have a running back around you. There's going to be no play action.
Starting point is 00:24:38 Get rid of that five wide receiver set. It's driven me nuts for years for what I was trying to do. All right. Running back, Caleb Johnson, 66.9. Thought he should have been a tick higher than that. LeSean Williams, a 60.3. Same thing with him. The number that hurt Caleb Johnson was him in pass blocking,
Starting point is 00:24:53 working his way back, obviously, off of injury. Don't get those kind of reps. You can see that one. I'll find out that one. The wide receivers, do we need to do it? I mean, nobody caught a ball. No. Tight end, Eric Hall, stud, 89.9. That's huge. That's like a 99 if you're talking about a grading scale
Starting point is 00:25:10 in academia. That's a great one there. Stiliano's, Orworth, Pacuzzi, kind of nothing to say there of the other three tight ends. Here we go, offensive line. Your top-rated offensive lineman was Rusty Fett. And I guess the best thing I could say out of Rusty in this game is he didn't look awful. That's a step up. Logan Jones is 65.8. Mason Richmond is 60.8. Dunker a 59.
Starting point is 00:25:38 Colby a 53. Stevens also a 53 in that one. What really hurt both of the injured guys with Mason Richmond and Connor Colby, both of their pass blocking grades were in the teens. We know how good the pass blocking has been throughout most of this season for Iowa. We'll see. And we'll see what they are health-wise. As we get ready for Wisconsin, that remains the great question. Is this team going to be healthy? Are they healthy enough at the offensive line position to keep that run game going? I was not built to win this game, even 20 to 17. It's going to have to be a weird 10, 7, 12, 8, 15, 13. That's the kind of game.
Starting point is 00:26:26 15-13, that's the kind of game, and I believe the only kind of game, that Iowa can win. The good news is, this is not a vintage Wisconsin team. And Iowa's had so many troubles against Jim Leonard's defense and what Wisconsin started to do, what, seven, eight years ago when Anderson went to town there with the 3-4 scheme. Maybe with the new staff out there, Iowa can find a few cracks. Maybe they can find a few things that they can figure out. Let's hope. We'll break the game down a little bit deeper. We will have a Lockdown Crossover Edition with Lockdown Wisconsin
Starting point is 00:26:56 coming up this week, breaking things down and getting you a little more insight into that Wisconsin program. We will do that. Jason is going to be here. And, of course, former Hawkeye running back LaShawn Daniels, as he is each and every week during football season. We got a busy one coming up for you this week. It is, for all intents and purposes, the Big Ten West title game coming up on Saturday against Wisconsin. Not overly optimistic, but
Starting point is 00:27:22 hey, maybe throughout the week we can talk ourselves into it. Still also owe you a mailbag edition. Make sure to continue commenting over on YouTube with your thoughts, comments, and questions over there. You can also hit me up on Twitter at Trent Condon. That is Trent Condon with an N-C-O-N-D-O-N, regardless of what the smartasses on some message boards like to say. C-O-N-D-O-N regardless of what the smart asses on some message boards like to say.
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